Aldo Finzi was a Jewish-Italian politician

Politician

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Finzi started out his political career as an alderman in Badia Polesine

Badia Polesine

Badia Polesine is a comune in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about 70 km southwest of Venice and about 25 km west of Rovigo...

. At the end of First World War, he was one of the figher pilot in Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist...

's campaign to drop propaganda leaflets over Vienna

Vienna

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, Austria

Austria

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. Afterwards, he studied law in Ferrara

Ferrara

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. In 1921, he was one of the nine Jewish deputies elected to parliament for the Fasci italiani di combattimento

Fasci Italiani di Combattimento

The Fasci Italiani di Combattimento were an Italian fascio organization, created by Benito Mussolini in 1919. After World War I had ended, he reconstituted the Milan fascio, renaming it Fasci Italiani di Combattimento. In 1921, this fascio would be transformed into the Partito Nazionale Fascista,...

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Finzi had to resign as under-secretary of the interior, when in 1924, the Socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti

Giacomo Matteotti

Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Fascists committed fraud in the recently held elections, and denounced the violence they used to gain votes...

 was murdered. He would leave the chamber of deputies in 1928. He became a fierce opponent of the fascist racial laws of 1938, and he would be removed from the National Fascist Party

National Fascist Party

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 in 1942. He died as anti-fascist partisan in the Ardeatine massacre

Ardeatine massacre

The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome....

, carried out by the SS

Schutzstaffel

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in March 1944 at Rome.